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Yeah I'm running a Cloudflare tunnel for external access (which is why I need DNS based LE certs), but that's another thing that I don't really know what it's doing beyond basic reverse proxying.
I have a country-based whitelist for where my Immich instance can be accessed from but I find the Zero Trust admin backend to be massive overkill for my needs, and it doesn't help that they've recently moved everything around so none of the guides out there point to the right places anymore!
Btw, you can do http based LE certificates through cloudflare. They just proxy the ACME URLs.
Hmm I must be doing something wrong then because it doesn't work for me.
So, is public accessibility actually required?
Does it need to be exposed to the public internet?
Why not use wireguard (or another VPN)? Even easier is tailscale.
If you are hand selecting users (IE, doesn't actually need to be publicly accessible), then VPN is the most secure and just run a reverse proxy for ease & certs.
Or set up client certificate authentication, so only users that install a certificate issued by you can connect to the service (dunno how that works for 3rd party apps to immich)
Like I asked, what is your actual threat model?
What are your requirements?
Is public accessibility actually required?
If it was just me, or if Tailscale wasn't such an insatiable battery leech then I'd absolutely do that but the wife (and kids) acceptance factor plays a big role, and they're never going to accept having to toggle a separate service on and off to get to their photos.
Maybe I'm being overly paranoid but I work in IT and see the daily, near constant barrage of port scans and login attempts to our VPN service and it has an effect!
I use WireGaurd, it’s set to on demand for any network or cellular data (so effectively always on), no DNS records (I just use public DNS providing private range IP addresses). It doesn’t make any sort of dent in my battery life. Also, only the wiregaurd network traffic is routed through it, so if my server is down the phone/laptop’s internet continues to work. I borrowed my wife’s phone and laptop for 15 minutes to set it up, and now no one has to think about it.
Thanks for the suggestion. I spent a good hour or two trying to make Wireguard work for me last night but failed. If I set it to only apply to Immich, nothing else would have Internet access at all. Likewise if I set the peer IP range to just my LAN subnet.
After pulling my hair out for a while I gave up and uninstalled.
The peer range shouldn’t be your LAN, it should be a new network range, just for WireGaurd. Make sure that the server running Immich is part of the WireGaurd network.
My phone and laptop see three networks: the internet, the lan (192.168.1.0/24, typically) and WireGaurd (10.30.0.0/16). I can anonymize and share my WireGaurd config if that would help.
Yes please, I might revisit it with a fresh pair of eyes.
Here are a few more details of my setup:
Components:
custom.domain
)The home router has WireGuard port forwarded to server, with no re-mapping (I'm using the default 51820). It's also providing DHCP services to my home network, using the 192.168.1.0/24 network.
The server is running the dynamic DNS client (keeping the dynamic domain name updated to my public IP), and I have a CNAME record on the
vpn.custom.domain
pointing to the dynamic DNS name (which is an awful random string of characters). I also haveserver.custom.domain
with an A record pointing to10.30.0.1
. All my DNS records are in public DNS (so no need to change the DNS settings on the computer or phone or use DNS overrides with WireGuard.)Immich config:
WireGuard is configured using
wg-quick
(/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf
):Start WireGuard with
systemctl enable --now wg-quick@wg0
.Phone WireGuard configuration (iOS):
This connection is then left always enabled, and comes on whenever my phone has any kind of network connection.
My laptop (running Linux), is also using
wg-quick
(/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf):My wife's window's laptop is configured using the official WireGuard windows app, with similar settings.
No matter where we are (at home, on a WiFi hotspot, or using cellular data) we access Immich over the VPN: http://server.custom.comain:2283/.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
Thanks, I'll muse over this when I next get the chance!